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Open-source geeks are modern heroes, says think tank
News Britain's open-source software developers make a valuable contribution to society and the British economy through the high quality of their work, according to Demos. And Pro-Am software programmers who are part of the 'open source' movement are...
[November 29, 2004, 14:40]
Sun: Open source Java won't change anything for developers
News Sun's decision to make Java SE open source won't make any difference to the majority of Java programmers, according to the company's chief open source officer. This has been a perspective I've had on open source Java SE for some time: there are...
[August 16, 2006, 13:05]
Open source projects 'need more customer focus'
Talkback Great, more FUD from another company that has never contributed anything substantial to the open source community. For this gentlemen information, there are plenty of ways people can get support nowadays, including red hat, ibm ,etc.and "rpm -e...
[June 3, 2005, 9:37]
Open source firms 'to be consumed by wave of consolidation'
News A wave of consolidation is sweeping the IT industry, and many open source business applications will be left behind when customers pare down their suppliers, an SAP executive predicted Wednesday. But those rivals are too immature to make it, said...
[February 16, 2006, 9:05]
Open-source CRM firm marches into Europe
News The open-source CRM vendor announced on Monday that Clint Oram, one of the co-founders of SugarCRM, would serve as general manager for Sugar Europe and run the European team. The establishment of Sugar Europe signifies the importance of Europe as a...
[March 5, 2007, 12:40]
Business Objects: Open source a distant threat
Talkback Take a look at PALO www.palo.net - This is an open source OLAP server which will be similar to commercial offereing such as TM1 and MIS Alea. Its RAM based and so should be fast and there is an excel add-in so end users should feeel comfortable...
[October 10, 2005, 19:41]
Open source fans to emulate .Net
News Open source fans announced on Monday the first steps in an effort to reproduce Microsoft's .Net's underpinnings so people can use the technology without Microsoft's involvement. The company has embarked on a loud campaign against the General Public...
[July 10, 2001, 12:06]
Open Source only viable way to do shared-services
Talkback DfT should take a leaf out of Becta's book and start investigating Open Source. If they spent even a couple of hours investigating how 'shared-services' is done in the real world, then even our Microsoft-obsessed Government would figure out that it...
[May 23, 2008, 14:15]
Open source awareness growing in Scotland
News A member of the Scottish Parliament claimed on Thursday that there is growing support for open source software in the Scottish public sector, but warned that awareness in the Scottish Executive and Parliament is still limited.
[August 26, 2005, 8:50]
Open source defence centre launched
News A prominent intellectual property lawyer in the open source movement is helping launch a centre to provide free services to developers who use the collaborative programming method. The centre said in a statement that it will employ two full-time...
[February 1, 2005, 8:45]
Open source shaping up as Oracle rival
News Oracle continues to dominate the database software market, but challenges lie ahead from open source, analysts say. We expect them (open source database software sellers) to gain market share, and probably pretty quickly," she added.
[May 26, 2006, 9:55]
Open Source is the freedom of Choice, not necessarily the cheaper option.
Blog Admittedly Open Source can be cheaper if you think of the code itself not costing anything. He asked me if I use Open Source Software because it is cheaper than the alternatives. At the end of the day, whether a product is Open Source or...
[September 21, 2009, 10:06]
MSDN Webcast: Open Source in the Enterprise (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast provides a vigorous and candid panel discussion on the uses and implications of open source software in an enterprise environment. In this webcast, the presenters address this important and sometimes confusing topic.
[December 31, 2008, 0:00]
Open source renders patching a problem
Talkback As with anything open-source and free software, it is always wrong to think in terms of one solution. There will never be one big solutions to anything in the open source world, this is how Monopolies work, not the open-source community.
[November 18, 2005, 20:00]
Open source gets boost from the cost-conscious
News Big companies are warming up to open-source database software, according to a new study. The open-source database MySQL grew rapidly in popularity over the last year, according to results from a survey released on Monday by research company Evans...
[January 5, 2004, 15:40]
Open-source legal body sues over GPL violation
News A legal team enforcing the most widely used licence in the open-source and free-software movement has shown that it's not afraid to take its cases all the way to court. For years, violations of the General Public License (GPL) have been met with...
[October 1, 2007, 15:08]
Open source politics are 'American as apple pie'
News The politics of open source are not anti-business or anything to be ashamed of, but a return to America's inventive roots after a period dominated by innovation-stifling monopolies. Moglen, who is also the founding director of The Software Freedom...
[June 2, 2006, 10:55]
Open source of contention - SSH!
News In the end, both sides could lose if access to an important component of Internet security and the good will toward SSH Communications become casualties, say open source and intellectual property experts.
[February 26, 2001, 14:22]
Open source Java project wants code donations
News Apache Harmony, a project which plans to create an open source implementation of Java, has called on the Java business community to donate software. Geir Magnusson, a board member at Apache Software Foundation, said developing open source...
[July 5, 2005, 15:00]
Open source security push gets $20m
News Open source security vendor Sourcefire has secured $20m (£10.6m) in funding, the company announced on Friday. Sourcefire is best known for its popular Snort open source IPS product. The network intrusion prevention (IPS) vendor will use the funds...
[June 2, 2006, 17:15]
